Show The th P Public Market MarketIs Is there any better advertising for a city cats than han d a lowering of the cost of living Hying We Ve think not And Salt Lake is reaping the benefit of its first attempt to cut living expenses here by hY the establishment of a municipal market Newspapers in other cities are discussing the movement and telling their readers how Salt Lake is becoming a better place in which to live by making living less costly In another column of this paper appears a clipping from one of ot the most widely read and most influential papers of ot the Middle W West st telling of the municipal market mark t here Salt Sat 1 Lakes Lake's housewives cannot afford to let the plan fail faH for lack of he hearty support and consistent patronage The wail here against high cost of living has been long and loud those who refuse to d do their part in breaking it down have no right to continue their lamentations Action not co complaining is needed now We Ve would like to see some fashion leader make it stylish for a woman to parade th the streets with a market mark t basket on an her arm A motion picture of Salt Lakes Lake's thrifty h housewives going to a and d dj j 1 from market would speak well wen for the good common sense and energy of Salt Lake women But naturally ally there are times when the housewives buy such I large quantities at lit that municipal market they find it difficult to carry arry the baskets We Ve suggest that neighbors chip in together and each pay a very small sum toward a fund for having an ex ex- ex- ex pressman ressman haul the goods to their homes when they buy large huge quantities People living in apartment houses could work out this plan lan especially well weB There are plenty of ways of making the market a success and of helping re reduce duce the thc cost of living in Salt Lake if the citizens citizens citi citi- zens will do their duty The combine is fighting hard that was to be c expected A monopoly with lines di drawn di tightly is using every scheme at its command every threat and every trick it can think of to ruin the peoples people's market The growers are organized like the Standard Oil trust But all of them must understand that the peoples people's s patience can last only so long There is a limit to everything human The citizens of Salt Lake of course want jq o buy from Utah farmers But they are going to buy as cheaply as they can and they will not ot let Jet the municipal market fail just because the nearby farmers f have organized in restraint of trade and refuse to meet the consumers on common ground Those ba back k o of the movement here declare that the they will go outside for products if necessary they will ill see that consumers who wh visit isit the market find what they want The farmers are between two fires one side they feel the thc whip of the middlemen who are fighting for their dearly beloved beloved beloved be be- loved system They threaten to blackball any f farmer armer who vho sells to the people On the other hand the consumers threaten to get supplies from the outside 0 Our 11 advice to the farmers wol would ld be to take chance a with the people I I |